Mullineux Schist Syrah
- Red
- South Africa
- Swartland
- Shiraz/Syrah
- Tracked vintages
- 14
- Community notes
- 146
- Merchant offers
- 75
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 96/ 1002023 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 86/ 100146 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £67per 75 cl2023 vintage · 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025
- Drinking window
- 2015–2027drinking2012 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 127 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: South African Syrah.
- Body4.2 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.4 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.2 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.5 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · dark fruit, black fruit, blackberry, plum, cassis
- Spice · pepper, white pepper, licorice, savory, cinnamon
- Earth · minerals, earthy, iron, smoke, ash
- Oak · vanilla, oak, nutmeg, clove, chocolate
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, cranberry
- Floral · violet, perfume, lavender, lily, rose petal
Grapes: Shiraz/Syrah. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2012One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2023
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 202396critic£67 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025
- 202296critic£75 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
- 202196critic£74 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2023
- 202097critic£55 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
- 201995critic£53 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025
- 201896critic£74 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2022
- 201794critic£53 / 75cl3-1500 ml in-bond trade, April 2021
- 201693criticunit not stated
- 201597critic£108 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 201493criticunit not stated
- 201387drinkersunit not stated
- 201293critic£56 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2019
- 201192critic
- 201093critic
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2015
- 97 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2012
- drinking, window 2015–2027
- Lowest price
- 2017
- £53 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | £67 | 95.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025 |
| 2022 | £75 | 95.8 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024 |
| 2021 | £74 | 96.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2023 |
| 2020 | £55 | 96.7 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025 |
| 2019 | £53 | 95.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025 |
| 2018 | £74 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2022 |
| 2017 | £53 | 94.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-1500 ml in-bond trade, April 2021 |
| 2015 | £108 | 97 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2012 | £56 | 93 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2019 |
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